{"id":13167,"date":"2020-01-09T09:34:26","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T13:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=13167"},"modified":"2020-01-09T09:34:26","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T13:04:26","slug":"cricket-a-factor-in-attracting-skilled-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=13167","title":{"rendered":"Cricket a factor in attracting skilled immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This CBC story from PEI features the role of cricket (and good cricketing infrastructure) in attracting immigrants to Canada.<br \/>\n&#8221; was the promise of work that attracted Kense Philip to P.E.I.\u2014 but it was his love for the game of cricket that convinced him to stay.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love playing cricket. I&#8217;ve played cricket all my life, so that was the main reason,&#8221; said Philip, adding that he finds the cricket field in Tea Hill, P.E.I., &#8220;the best cricketing facility in the whole Atlantic Canada.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The offer of a job in a community care\/nursing home and the attractiveness of the lifestyle P.E.I. promised, came together to make the move to the Island an easy choice back in 2011, he said.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/prince-edward-island\/pei-india-newcomers-immigration-china-1.5381466?cmp=rss\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This CBC story from PEI features the role of cricket (and good cricketing infrastructure) in attracting immigrants to Canada. &#8221; was the promise of work that attracted Kense Philip to P.E.I.\u2014 but it was his love for the game of cricket that convinced him to stay. &#8220;I love playing cricket. I&#8217;ve played cricket all my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13168,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13167\/revisions\/13168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}